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I get "To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in. (With Facebook or Google)" on mobile. No thanks, Medium. These dark patterns crop up everywhere

• math-dev 5y ago
  That’s a shame…it was the most annoying thing about Quora to me. As a Medium writer, I’m annoyed now! They already stopped paying me my ~0-10$ per month because I refused to beg everyone to get to their new minimum 100 followers requirement for getting paid.
• aw1cks 5y ago
  https://scribe.rip https://scribe.rip
• Eduard 5y ago
  https://archive.is/BqS0n https://archive.is/BqS0n
• throwaway81523 5y ago
  12ft.io got past that for me.
• socialdemocrat 5y ago
  It is for authors like me writing on Medium, to have a way of getting paid. There is a need for both paid and free content. But reality is that you cannot produce quality content if everything has to be free. Advertisement is one solution, but one not without its own serious drawbacks. Medium is a like a magazine with a very large number of journalists which it pays to write for it. Naturally it needs to charge subscribers to make an income.